Developing an incident response playbook

An incident response playbook is a predefined set of actions to address a specific security incident such as malware infection, violation of security policies, DDoS attack, etc. Its main goal is to enable a large enterprise security team to respond to cyberattacks in a timely and effective manner...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-27785

An issue found in TCPreplay TCPprep v.4.4.3 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the parse endpoints function...

The vulnerability of the design and preparation of 3D-printing objects, related to insufficient verification of input data, allows a perpetrator to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the design and preparation tools for 3D printing is related to insufficient verification of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code using a specially created file...

SUSE CVE-2010-3836

MySQL 5.0 before 5.0.92, 5.1 before 5.1.51, and 5.5 before 5.5.6 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service assertion failure and server crash via vectors related to view preparation, pre-evaluation of LIKE predicates, and IN Optimizers...

Managing Hype Events to Delight Customers, Not Bot Operators

Learn how to prepare for your hype event so you ensure your goods are available for your loyal customers … and not bots...

Moderate: java-1.8.0-openjdk security and bug fix update

The java-1.8.0-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 8 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 8 Java Software Development Kit. Security Fixes: OpenJDK: improper restrictions in CORBA deserialization Serialization, 8285021 CVE-2023-21830 OpenJDK: soundbank URL remote loading Sound, 8293742...

PT-2025-37685

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description: A null pointer dereference bug exists in the media subsystem, specifically within the tw68 driver during buffer preparation and finalization. A failure in dma alloc coherent can result...

Here's How to Ensure Your Incident Response Strategy is Ready for Holiday Hackers

The best line of defense against holiday hacking schemes is a comprehensive incident response strategy that focuses on end-user vulnerabilities. The holiday season is upon us and with it a slew of cybersecurity scams preying on end-user vulnerabilities. Because employees often use their business...

Effectively Preparing for the OpenSSL 3.x Vulnerability

With all the noise about the OpenSSL vulnerability, see this blog about how to prepare for mitigation when the patch is released...

Social Engineering dos and don’ts

Another day, another success at sneaking into a building and pretending to be staff. I do so love drinking other peoples expensive office coffee. No fruit bowls though. Close, but no banana. It got me thinking, again, about what makes for good social engineering SE, and what advice would I give m...

KB5017220: Update for the Extended Security Updates Licensing Preparation Package for Windows Server 2012 R2

KB5017220: Update for the Extended Security Updates Licensing Preparation Package for Windows Server 2012 R2 Introduction This update provides an additional set of licensing changes to enable installation of the ESU add-on key. This is one of the steps to prepare for installation of Extended...

How to capture a full memory dump from a PVS target running on Azure

This article will cover the steps necessary to prepare an Azure VM running PVS to be able to capture a full memory dump...

SUSE-FU-2022:2794-1 Feature update for ongres-scram, ongres-stringprep, postgresql-jdbc

This feature update for ongres-scram, ongres-stringprep, postgresql-jdbc provides: ongres-scram: - Upgrade from version 1.0.0-beta.2 to version 2.1. jscSLE-23994 Add standard SASLPrep bsc1196693, jscSLE-23994 Failover to bouncy castle implementation of PBKDF2WithHmacSHA256 to support Oracle JDK 7...

How one Microsoft product manager acts as champion for identity security

A technology career embodies the ancient Roman saying that “luck happens when preparation meets opportunity.” Few industries are as dynamic, fast-paced, or intense as technology. With so many challenges to solve, opportunities are everywhere, but as I’ve learned myself through the years, the best...

How to ‘Win’ a Red Team Exercise

What is a red team exercise? Organizations that conduct red team exercises use penetration testing tactics to assess vulnerabilities and discover weak points in their cybersecurity preparation. Usually, this involves two teams - one red the protagonists and one blue the incident responders who mu...

A Guide to Surviving a Ransomware Attack

Surviving ransomware is possible with a combination of preparation and intentionality. Often, there is a misguided characterization of ransomware attacks that implies defenders either completely thwart an attack or that attackers establish complete control of their targets’ IT infrastructure. But...

AzureRT - A Powershell Module Implementing Various Azure Red Team Tactics

Powershell module implementing various cmdlets to interact with Azure and Azure AD from an offensive perspective. Helpful utilities dealing with access token based authentication, switching from Az to AzureAD and az cli interfaces, easy to use pre-made attacks such as Runbook-based command...

FBI Conducted 3.4 Million Warrantless Searches of Americans' Data

Plus: Trump backers breach election systems, Microsoft tracks Russia's war prep, a new Facebook leak reveals a mess, and Bored Ape Yacht Club gets hacked...

Prudent Cybersecurity Preparation for the Potential Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Update Feb 24, 2022: The situation in Ukraine has worsened since this blog post was first published, though our preparation advice remains the same. We will update the Rapid7 blog with a new post as events warrant. Tensions between Russia and Ukraine remain elevated, with a high degree of...

CVE-2021-39653

In TBD of TBD, there is a possible way to boot with a hidden debug policy due to a missing warning to the user. This could lead to local escalation of privilege after preparing the device, hiding the warning, and passing the phone to a new user, with no additional execution privileges needed. Use...